GE's not-so-big west-end secret

The amount of radiation that comes from Non-Enriched Uranium powder is not particularly harmful to humans.

As far as I'm concerned, this is more a bureaucratic misdemeanour than some evil plot to hide something super-dangerous.

Give me more tangible evidence that this is actually harmful, or a potential risk above that of any other industrial building, and I will gladly join the cause.

Drew Cox

From nowtoronto.com

Tim Hudak messing with Toronto's transit future

Did you read that, folks? Tim Hudak says he would use any of the money not spent on LRTs so far to construct subterranean transit if he's elected (NOW Daily, October 16). So that means the LRT lines planned for Toronto will be cancelled. What we need are iron-clad clauses so no future provincial government will cancel the LRT lines.

Don Adams

From nowtoronto.com

Infertility mistreatment

I just read Jennifer Febbraro's article about becoming an advocate for women in need of support over infertility (NOW, October 18-24). I want to join forces with her!

I'm coming at the matter from a different perspective, having infertility issues due to cancer treatment as a young adult.

If you can believe it, in vitro fertilization and fertility preservation are not covered in Ontario for young people with cancer who need to undergo treatments.

And there are virtually no support groups where you can talk about infertility related to cancer with others in the same situation. We need to do more to support women dealing with infertility in general.

Lara McLachlan

Toronto

One more thing about Giorgio Mammoliti

Re Giorgio Mammoliti versus Gord Perks (NOW, October 11-17). Great article, but you forgot to mention Mammo's other claim to fame. Didn't he also try to be a job creator earlier this year by proposing that a brothel be built on the Toronto Islands, thus creating work for women and by extension women in his own riding?

James Watt

Toronto

City's community gardens are not

Toronto's city gardening is sad and pointless. We have small, delicate flowers dotted around the city for no purpose beyond appearance. The community gardens are inaccessible, widely misunderstood or simply ignored. Why, might you ask?

Because we are forced to wait for city staff to approve what we can and can't do with our own public spaces.

We are the government, the people, not the bureaucratic bullies. We shouldn't have to ask permission to alter and beautify our own streets.

Daniel Isaiah Mckendrick

From nowtoronto.com

Smarter conservatives, please

I object to your publishing Colin Taylor's letter (NOW, October 11-17). I wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this fluff.

The right wing is the dominant ideology in media and government the world over, and this is the best defence NOW Magazine can get for it?! Please print at least moderately intelligent right-wing letters rather than intellectual wreckage like this.